She slowly pulled back her fingers, and her hand brushed against his nipple on its way back down. His nipples were as hard as a pebble, and with a start, she wondered if men got hard like that too. Quickly, she slid her fingertips away from it, unsure if it was because he was aroused or if it was always that way. Her own breasts were puckered so tightly they hurt.
To clear the sexual air around them, Belle asked something that had been burning in her mind after everything Rohan had told her about what she had forgotten. "You said I had hoped to help Rav when I was still a reaper, but things didn't work out the way we planned. Did he die because of me?" she asked.
Rohan's arousal was quickly suppressed at her question, because it was exactly what he had wanted to avoid by not telling her immediately about Rav when she first woke up, he didn't want her to blame herself for not being there to keep her promise.
